Libraries and Book Collectors

Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände in Deutschland, Österreich und Europa.

Les classiques de la bibliothéconomie (Municipal Library of Lyon) collects together classic texts in library science from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

Consortium of European Research Libraries On-line Provenance Resources


National Histories of Libraries

The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, by Peter Hoare et al. Cambridge; NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Widener | WID-LC Z791.A1 C36 2006
Online version

Private libraries in Renaissance England: a collection and catalogue of Tudor and early Stuart book-lists. PLRE is a collection and catalog of personal libraries dating from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the mid seventeenth, with the majority of materials drawn from the probate inventories of the goods of sixteenth century Oxford scholars.
--EXplore Private Libraries in Renaissance England (CD-ROM) complements, supplements and augments the printed volumes of PLRE.

Histoire des bibliotheques francaises. (Paris) Promodis-Editions du Cercle de la Librairie, 1988.
Widener | WID-LC Z797.A1H57 1988F

Book Collectors

The books and manuscripts of John Dee, 1527-1608. 154 microfilm reels (Renaissance man, the reconstructed libraries of European scholars, 1450-1700, ser. 1)

Book Collectors

Dictionary of American book collectors, by Donald C. Dickinson. NY: Greenwood Press, 1986, 383 p. Houghton | Reading Room | Z989.A1 D53 1986 Widener | WID-LC | Z989.A1 D53 1986

American book-collectors and bibliographers. First series, ed. by Joseph Rosenblum. Detroit : Gale Research, 1994, 408 p. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 140 Widener | RR 3129.5 vol. 140

American book collectors and bibliographers. Second series, ed. by Joseph Rosenblum. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1997, 431 p. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 187 Widener | RR 3129.5 vol. 187

Pre-nineteenth-century British book collectors and bibliographers, ed. by William Baker and Kenneth Womack. Detroit : Gale Group, 1999, 487 p. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 213 Widener | RR 3129.5 vol. 213

Nineteenth-century British book-collectors and bibliographers, ed. by William Baker and Kenneth Womack. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, 1997, 531 p. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 184 Widener | RR 3129.5 vol. 184

Twentieth-century British book collectors and bibliographers, ed. by William Baker and Kenneth Womack. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1998, 393 p. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 201 Widener | RR 3129.5 vol. 201

Dictionary of Literary Biography is largely comprised of volumes on literary authors. The DLB is indexed by name in the Literary Index